IT JUST DOESN'T MAKE SENSE THAT ILLEGAL ABORTIONS PRESENT ANY DANGER TO A WOMAN, DOES IT, TIM? It is all a pro-choice conspiracy. Those damn statistics don't show a damn thing. Nope, nope--don't know what you're talking about, Solon. Ilegal abortions protect the rights of children, and they make it safe for woman. The statistics don't show me nothin. The people doing the statistics are all working for the pro-choice. They're all a bunch of liars. Women don't probably even have abortions. Illegal abortions protect the rights of children. It makes abortions a lot safer for woman. Yep. Yep. Yup.
"The death rate associated with abortion is hundreds of times higher in developing regions, where the procedure is often illegal, than in developed countries (Table 1). The rate is highest--almost 700 deaths per 100,000 procedures--in Africa. Since well-off women in cities are frequently able to obtain safe abortions even when it is against the law, the majority of deaths and complications from abortion occur among low-income women and women living in rural areas who undergo unsafe, illicit procedures.
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Table 1
Abortion-Related Deaths
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Region Deaths per 100,000 abortions
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Developing1 330
Africa 680
South & Southeast Asia 283
Latin America 119
Developed .0.2-1.2
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1. Excluding China. Source: The Alan Guttmacher Institute (AGI), Sharing Responsibility: Women, Society and Abortion Worldwide, New York: AGI, 1999, p. 35." |
